From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 9 00:35:14 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7963216A4CE for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 00:35:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [66.11.174.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5377743D1D for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 00:35:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from wocker (wocker.unixathome.org [192.168.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA7393D34; Thu, 8 Jul 2004 20:35:13 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dan Langille" To: Bruce M Simpson Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 20:35:13 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <40EDB001.4311.E98BBCCC@localhost> Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.12a) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: How's current lately for laptops? (was Two questions on Thinkpad T41) X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 00:35:14 -0000 On 8 Jul 2004 at 20:30, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > For what it's worth, I managed to test the other day with two separate T41 > machines (one with help from a local FreeBSD user) on -CURRENT, and the > machine I was testing on did *not* demonstrate the CD-RW/DVD related crash. > > This was based on a simple hard drive swap with my own T40 which doesn't > have any problems running -CURRENT: > > empiric:~ % uname -a > FreeBSD empiric.dek.spc.org 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #1: Tue Jul 6 23:17:47 BST 2004 bms@kimchi.dek.spc.org:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/EMPIRIC i386 Bruce: I think this answers my question. My ThinkPad T41 is now in the shop getting a new system board (I hope). When it returns, I was considering running -CURRENT on it rather than 5.2.1-RELEASE. Your experience above has encouraged me to try it. I'll cvsup to the above date and let you know how it goes.... when I get it back. Anyone else running -CURRENT on a laptop have any recommendations/warnings/comments? On a side note Bruce: Do you buildworld on your laptop or another box? -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/